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Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

How to win your very first Ironman with Maggie Walsh

Taren's MōTTIV Method Podcast

Taren Gesell

Podcast, Triathlon, Ironman, Health & Fitness, Training, Gesell, Triathletes, Sports, Taren

4.7843 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Maggie Walsh is an ultra runner-turned-triathlete, who absolutely smashed her way into the sport.  Just this past year, she entered Ironman Boulder, never having done a triathlon of any distance... and she proceeded to not only win the amateur division of the race but came in 4th overall, finishing ahead of many pros!  Thanks to her incredible showing, she was invited to the 2019 Zwift Tri Academy, and will race in Kona in October.  We find out all about Maggie's experiences in her first Ironman race, about Ultra Running, and more.

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0:00.0

Today's podcast is brought to you by two sponsors, Roka, our pals at Roka, wetsuit, sunglasses,

0:06.6

floaty pants. Everything you want under the sun can be found at roca.com forward slash

0:11.6

Terran.

0:12.6

Now I want to talk about specifically what wetsuit I use that people have been questioning me on,

0:19.3

well, why aren't you using the super-duper high-end Maverick Pro X wetsuit Taryn?

0:25.1

Well, when I go and I train, I use the Maverick Comp, which is their entry-level wetsuit.

0:31.3

I think that that Maverick comp is as good a wetsuit as some of those $8 nine, $1,200 wetsuits out there for a fraction

0:41.3

of the price trainiacs.

0:43.6

So if you are in the market for an entry level wetsuit, I highly recommend that one.

0:48.4

That one sounds like a good one.

0:50.0

And the thing is they put the same kind of quality into every single one of their products.

0:54.6

So the so-called entry level isn't like a lesser entry level.

0:58.3

It's just a different wetsuit.

0:59.8

Exactly.

1:00.2

That's why I've been such a big fan of Roka, from goggles to wetsuits to floaty pants,

1:05.5

sunglasses now, pretty much everything that I've tried from them since 2013 has been great.

1:10.3

So go check out roca.com

1:12.6

forward slash terran. They have set that up roca.com slash terran is kind of the catch-all for everything

1:18.6

Trainiac-related. So sometimes we're running a contest at roca.com slash terran. Sometimes there's nothing

1:25.6

at roca.com slash taren. Sometimes there is a discount available at roca.com slash terran.

1:28.3

Sometimes there is a discount available at roca.com slash taren.

1:32.8

So go there.

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